Topic ID 1354
Noticed this comment in the mercury which made me chuckle. "One tenant was so desperate that he accepted a place in Sele Farm, where no-one wants to go. But it got so bad he accepted it." ('Noisy bar is driving out the neighbours') Seems even council tenants have standards!
Reply ID 16755
Personally i do not see what the problem is on Sele Farm. We have lived here 3 years and not had any trouble. Generally it is quite, apart from cars using it a rat run from Welwyn Road to North Road. opps, should really read before i hit submit!
Reply ID 16756
Gill, I assume that you mean "do not see"! I'm a neighbour of Gill's. I've lived here for 10 years and never seen any trouble. I think that anything that happens tends to be over on The Ridgeway, as far as I am aware the rest of the estate is no worse than anywhere else in Hertford. I've never been worried about walking home from the town late at night. I certainly wouldn't call it a no go zone.
Reply ID 16772
Just read the article in the Mercury and it is a Riversmead tennant that is complaining. Some of us have to pay for our own houses and we have to live in places like Sele Farm because we can't afford to live somewhere with a "better reputation" like Ware. Sounds like snobbery to me.
Reply ID 16776
by the way, don't get me wrong i don't have a problem with sele farm. my grandad has lived there since time began and wouldn't have a bad word said against it. does seem there's a good comunity spirit in the area, especially with the elderly, with a few people set out to spoil it. I can't believe someone who has there bills paid/subsidised for them by the taxpayer thinks that they can be fussy where they live.
Reply ID 16778
I have lived on Sele Farm all my life and although it has its problems, it is far nicer than Hornsmill and Pinehurst. I live in a Riversmead flat and although would like to swap for a house, if I was offered one in Ware I would probably not take it. I think it is just what you get used to. I am not particularly slating any of these places but you get used to what you know. Sele Farm is always thought of as bad by "outsiders" but a huge amount of that stems from the early 80's before The Ridgeway was rebuilt. If people took the time they would see that it is nowhere near as bad as people make out. When I was at college (10 years ago) another student asked where I lived (he was from Hoddesdon), when I told him Sele Farm he said "don't the rats even run around with flick knives up there?" !!!!!!
Reply ID 16780
In response to Emma's post, I would say the Ridgeway looks really good these days, quite a designer estate
Reply ID 16782
quote:Back in 2001 I was looking to buy in Hertford and a born & bred Hertfordian friend of mine showed me round. When we drove into Sele Farm, she delighted in telling me that "most of Hertford's criminals" lived along one particular road and if I chose to live in Sele Farm then she wouldn't visit me and would never bring her child to visit. This was a new side to her that I found rather shocking. Don't see much of her these days... [:)]
Originally posted by jez_p
Sounds like snobbery to me.
Reply ID 16783
I was born in the Ridgeway, the block concerned is no longer there [;)] I have early memories of that place and they aren't too great, it rightly deserved it's reputation back in the seventies, but now things have changed for the better. I think places like the Ridgeway crop up more in the local rag purely because the road has a higher population count and therefore statistically will always appear more notorious. I have also spent 14 years living in Bengeo and 6 years on the Mandeville estate and I conclude that there are good and bad in all areas. Sometimes living next door to a heavy duty snob can be a bigger pain in the arse then having a dysfunctional "Simpson" type family on your doorstep. [:D]
Reply ID 16791
we were warned off Sele Farm by the estate agents when we were looking to move to Hertford. We did go and see a place up there but it just wasn't me. Still live in an ex-local Authority estate though, as you get way more for your money.
Reply ID 16794
quote:Likewise, we were given recommendations not to look at Sele and Pinehurst by estate agents.
Originally posted by thefair1973
we were warned off Sele Farm by the estate agents when we were looking to move to Hertford. We did go and see a place up there but it just wasn't me. Still live in an ex-local Authority estate though, as you get way more for your money.
Reply ID 16796
10 years ago if you had asked me then I would have probably said that I wouldn't ever move to Sele Farm (or Pinehurst come to that)
Reply ID 17134
I love the resident response letter in Fridays Mercury. He claims there is no problem in Sele Farm, them claims the problem is that all the bad eggs have been placed in one basket. Did he not see his own contradiction?!